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Showing 1 to 20 of 488 for “"Natural world"”.
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Intimacy with the natural world: A humanistic perspective
<p>Thomas Berry's "intimacy with the natural world" is not an alternative to the anthropocentric-biocentric dispute, which belong to the same rationality. The frontier story and environmentalism are both part of the same rationality because they ignore people. While anthropocentrism is focused on …
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Women and the natural world and their marketplace activities
This study investigates the complex relationship between women and nature and the subsequent marketplace behaviors that were manifested as a result of this relationship. The relationship between women and nature was described with four dimensions: intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual. …
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Earthbound: Celebrating the Natural World Enjoying Good Food and Company
… and drinking while fostering a connection to the natural world. <br /> <br /> I have long held an interest in the human connection to nature, which was fostered by both my parents and oldest brother. As a child I was encouraged to observe wildlife and to read about the natural world. The objects …
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Bowu and the Natural World in the Formation of Modern China
… enduring relevance in knowledge-making of the natural world in China, this thesis presents a first step in investigating the long-term history of *bowu* by tracing various manifestations of *bowu* as an intellectual and cultural category of knowledge. Chapter One provides a comprehensive review …
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The World Become Image: Nonrepresentational Discussions of Film and the Natural World
… the relationships between film and the natural world. Building upon extant work in the burgeoning field of Ecocinema, this project attempts to move beyond the scholarly work on Ecocinema that satisfies itself with questions of representation. The issues and arguments taken up here tend …
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The Biocentric Landscape Architect: Designing the Public Landscape, Benefiting the Natural World
Owing to the author's interest in and concern for earth's processes, healthy ecosystems, and environmental decline and devastation, this thesis examines the human – nature relationship, as it relates to landscape architecture, through spiritual, mathematical, geometrical, historical, economical, …
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The ecological turn: positioning the natural world in post-Mao fiction and film
… the interactions of humans, places, and the natural world. The individual works of Dai Sijie, Jia Zhangke, Han Shaogong, and Wang Anyi demonstrate in many ways the extent to which the role of the natural world has been explored and positioned within post-Mao fiction and film, echoing the …
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Frustrated desire and controlling fictions : the natural world in ancient pastoral literature and art
… dwell on what is not attainable. The botanical world, then, functions alongside the frustrated desires and within the controlling fictions of loca amoena, adynata, and magic in the pastoral literature of Theocritus, Virgil, and Longus.
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A social compass for the natural world: Fishing participation is driven by social influence
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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‘And eall worulde gesceaft’: Re-Reading the Natural World in Old English Biblical Poetry
… is evident in its complex representation of the natural world — which is shaped by a mesh of traditions including biblical source material, Old English poetics and Latin biblical epic. Throughout this thesis the main insights come from close-reading; these are considered in the context of …
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Social work, independent realities & the circle of moral considerability: Respect for humans, animals & the natural world
… and our embeddedness within an evolving natural world, and flies in the face of the reality that we already inhabit mixed communities and a wider household. It is deemed to be obvious that we are islands of moral value in an otherwise valueless natural world.
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Environmental NGO-Private Sector Partnerships: A Tool to Generate Business Value and Protect the Natural World
… Clark, The Nature Conservancy + PepsiCo, and World Wildlife Fund + Natural Habitat Adventures. This analysis points to the attributes that pair with the most beneficial environmental NGO-private sector partnership outcomes. A key finding is that the success of these partnerships is especially …
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
<p>Evolution is a central underlying concept to a significant number of discourses in civilized society, but the complexity of understanding basic tenets of this important theory is just now coming to light. Knowledge about evolution is constructed from both formal and "free-choice" opportunities, …
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KNOWING THE NATURAL WORLD: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EVOLUTION IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM
<p>Evolution is a central underlying concept to a significant number of discourses in civilized society, but the complexity of understanding basic tenets of this important theory is just now coming to light. Knowledge about evolution is constructed from both formal and "free-choice" opportunities, …
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Man and the artist of fate : a study of the man-nature relationship in the natural world
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Man and the artist of fate : a study of the man-nature relationship in the natural world
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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"This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition
… the sake of men; the Bad Mother, who is cold, unnatural, and challenges men; and les enfants terrible seductive girl-women who at once tempt and torment men. This research traces the development and evolution of female archetypes and explores how images of women, nature, sexuality, and evil are …
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Soils of regeneration: exploring conceptualizations of the natural world as a context for an ecologically-sensitive curriculum
… language plays in shaping perceptions of the natural world. Toward this end it analyzes narratives of science, literature and other disciplines that conceptualize the natural world as object and as subject. It evaluates how particular metaphors used in reference to the natural world enhance or …
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An Ecoritical Approach to Chaucer. Representations of the Natural World in the English Literature of the Middle Ages
… and the representations of nature in the ancient world which so much influenced the Middle Ages; it focuses on the English world by offering an interpretation of the natural world in Beowulf, and draws conclusion on possible eco-oriented ideas of the relationship between humans and the natural …
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